The recommendation is to "interleave" the two windings instead of simply wrapping the white windings on top of the greens windings. That should improve the coupling slightly. Wind it so the green wire runs over and under the white wire.
The K2 should make the full 10 watts on all bands as long as you wind it per the instructions, but some K2's just barely make the 10 watts on 10 meters and the Elecraft builders are famous for tweaking and prodding for an extra few milliwatts! It's sort of part of the genetic makeup of a habitual builder/tinkerer <G>. Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- In final stages of K2 build (winding last toroids). I remember a comment passing through the reflector a week or two ago about winding the binocular core differently than outlined in the manual. Before I get to it, thought I'd ask if this was something I should do? Maybe the comment wasn't about a K2. 73, Fred K6DGW Auburn CA CM98 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
